Windrose im Oberwappen des Wappens der Nordwest-Territorien. Nordwestuckermark , Windrose mit Hervorhebung der Nordwestrichtung. From to , a Regionalliga Süd existed as the second tier of the German football league system, but this league is not directly related to the current one.

The Regionalliga Süd was introduced in along with three other Regionalligas , those being:. The reason for its introduction was to create a highest regional league for the south of Germany and to allow its champions, and some years the runners-up too, to be directly promoted to the 2.

Previous to the introduction of the four Regionalligas, below the second division were ten Oberligas. Those ten Oberliga champions had to go through a promotion play-off rather than being directly promoted.

The Regionalliga Süd originally was made up from clubs from the three southern states of Bavaria , Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

In , with the reduction of the number of Regionalligas to two, the league also covered the states of Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland and Thuringia.

It also incorporated one club from Northrhine-Westphalia , the Sportfreunde Siegen. From , with re-expansion to three Regionalligas, the league again only contained clubs from the three original states.

However, in —11, the Wormatia Worms , a club from Rhineland-Palatinate, competed in the league. The Regionalliga Süd was formed in with 18 clubs, originally with six from each of the three Oberligas.

However, Baden-Württemberg lost one spot due to the Stuttgarter Kickers being relegated from the 2. The "new" Regionalliga Süd was actually a reformation of the "old" Regionalliga Süd which operated from to in the same region but then as the second tier of German football.

Unlike the "old" Regionalliga, the new one allowed reserve teams to compete in it. Its first season saw the SpVgg Unterhaching winning the league and being promoted to the 2.

Bundesliga while three out of the four teams relegated came from Hessen. After six seasons, in , the number of Regionalligas was reduced from four to two.

Only the Regionalligas Süd and Nord survived. The clubs of the other two were spread according to their geographical location. To make room for these extra clubs without expanding past the 18 team number, the seven bottom placed teams were supposed to be relegated.

However, FC Augsburg 8th did not receive a license for the next season and Karlsruher SC II 12th had to drop down because the first team was relegated to the Regionalliga and regulations forbid two teams from the same club to compete in the same league at this level.

With the introduction of the 3. Liga in and of a third Regionalliga, the Regionalliga West , the league became the fourth tier of German football.

When the —08 season finished on 31 May , the following teams had fulfilled the on-the-field qualification for the Regionalliga. However, financial qualification was also necerssary.

Sportfreunde Siegen were intended to be the 18th club in the Regionalliga Süd, but due to its insolvency, the club was demoted to the Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen or below for the —09 season.

FC Eintracht Bamberg was admitted to the Regionalliga in their stead, as the fifth-placed team in the largest of the southern football associations.

Liga and the three last-placed teams being relegated to the Oberliga, while the three southern Oberliga champions were promoted in turn.

In —09, two clubs from the 3. Liga were relegated to the league. This would have increased the number of teams to However, Waldhof Mannheim was transferred to the Regionalliga West for the next season.

Hessen Kassel, who had hoped to join the Regionalliga Nord for —10 had to remain in the south. In the —10 season, 1.

In October , another reform of the Regionalligas was decided upon. The number of leagues were now to be expanded to five, with the Bavarian clubs to leave the Regionalliga Süd and form their own Regionalliga Bayern.

In their stead, the south western clubs from Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland would re-join the league.

The new system is due to come into operation in the —13 season. It was also decided to limit the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga to seven.

In the —11 season, SpVgg Weiden declared insolvency due to more than Euro 1 million in debts. Unable to raise enough funds to continue competing in the league, Weiden declared on 30 November that it would withdraw its Regionalliga team and thereby automatically be relegated.

All games for the club in the —11 season were declared void. Nevertheless, the club was relegated and its record expunged.

At the end of the season , the league became defunct with the Bavarian clubs joining the new Regionalliga Bayern while the remainder of the league members joined the new Regionalliga Südwest.

The exceptions were the Stuttgarter Kickers , which were promoted to the 3. No other team was relegated.

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The league was formed after the season, with the purpose of creating a more competitive level of play for the rugby clubs in Southern Germany above the Regionalligas.

The suggestion, made by the Rhineland-Palatinate rugby federation in May , was to form a new league, the Oberliga-Süd-West.

Championship-winning clubs in the Regionalliga were often too strong for this level but too weak for the level above.

The new league was formed from nine clubs. One was the RC Mainz , which was relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season, while, of the other eight, one came from the Regionalliga Bavaria, two from Hesse, one from Rhineland-Palatinate, one from Baden-Württemberg and three from North Rhine-Westphalia.

For the season, the league was scheduled to be expanded to at least twelve teams in two regional divisions, [1] but started play with eleven clubs instead.

After the first round, the reserve team of RG Heidelberg joined the competition, thereby equaling both divisions in the number of clubs to six.

In the league once more started out with eleven teams but two of those were removed from competition after missing fixtures, Grashof RC Essen and SC Neuenheim II.

The —14 season was played with ten teams in two divisions of five but RG Heidelberg II was expelled from the competition after failing to field in two season games.

In the —11 season, SpVgg Weiden declared insolvency due to more than Euro 1 million in debts. Unable to raise enough funds to continue competing in the league, Weiden declared on 30 November that it would withdraw its Regionalliga team and thereby automatically be relegated.

All games for the club in the —11 season were declared void. Nevertheless, the club was relegated and its record expunged.

At the end of the season , the league became defunct with the Bavarian clubs joining the new Regionalliga Bayern while the remainder of the league members joined the new Regionalliga Südwest.

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Bundesliga Süd, together with seven teams from the Südwest region. The qualifying modus saw the last five seasons counted, whereby the last placed team in each season received one point, the second-last two points and so on.

For a Bundesliga season within this five-year period, a club received 25 points, for an Amateurliga season none. For the seasons —70 and 70—71, the received points counted single, for the 71—72 and 72—73 season double and for the 73—74 season three times.

To be considered in the points table for the new league, a club had to play either in the Regionalliga Süd in —74 or to have been relegated from the Bundesliga to it for the next season, something which did not apply to the league that year.

The bottom three clubs in the league, nominally the relegated teams in a normal season, were barred from entry to the 2. Bundesliga, regardless of where they stood in the points ranking.

This fact saved the FC Augsburg, the last league champion, from relegation, as Hessen Kassel, placed ninth overall but having finished 16th in —74 was barred from promotion, opening the way for FCA.

The Regionalliga Süd was reformed in , now as the third tier of the German football league system, again covering the three southern German states of Bayern, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.

In something of a repeat of history, the clubs from the Oberliga Südwest merged into the league in The Regionalliga Süd now roughly covered the same area as the 2nd Bundesliga Süd did from to In , the Südwest clubs will leave the league again and join the new Regionalliga West and the Regionalliga Süd will revert to its coverage of the three original regions, but now as the fourth tier of the league system, below the new 3.

The winners and runners—up of the league were: The league placings from to The best and worst teams in the all-time table of the league from to From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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